By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Some residents of the Alma Street neighborhood in Pittsfield, MA have been driven from their homes (for nearly 3 years) due to the installation of an industrial-scale telecom tower in the residential area. According to Massachusetts state law, “The purest form of democratic governing is practiced in a Town Meeting. In…
by Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Image courtesy Floris Freshman Commentary responding to Dec. 11 critique by Paris Marx of The Techno-Optimist Manifesto For an audio version of this blog, click HERE. As the holidays approach, the seventh wave can be perceived far-off in the distance. It is quietly building in power and strength, and those who have learned…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, Image courtesy Floris Freshman As the solstice approaches, for some, the laws of nature invite contemplation about the balance between yin and yang, darkness and light, will and surrender, and expansion and contraction. Many women (and informed men) recognize, already, that It’s time to question the lack of consciousness and care fueling the…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Art image courtesy Floris Freshman, Graphic Courtesy Nina Beety. For entertainment purposes only, not to be construed as medical advice. Advertisements for ABC’s popular show “Bachelor in Paradise” are teasing viewers with a subplot about one woman who apparently has not been able to have a bowel movement for 9 days. As a…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Images courtesy Floris Freshman A plea to United Auto Workers and the auto industry- please don’t go down with the ship. We need someone to exit the off ramp. Ever-evolving tech-driven auto industry innovation has created a litany of safety issues, for example unintended accelerations, leaking ABS modules, roll aways, keyless entry hazards,…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Top Image courtesy Floris Freshman In the late 1990s, when I wrote for New England’s largest holistic magazine, I heard the first rumblings from massage therapists working in the mountain regions of the Northeast. From the Catskills to the Berkshires, body workers were reporting changes in the skin of city-based vacationers. They…
Currently, informed ratepayers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are attempting to bring adequate scrutiny, accurate science, and personal narratives of health damage to the run-away train debate about ‘smart’ meters and ‘smart’ grids.
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, Image courtesy Floris Freshman Bing states that “A paper tiger is something or someone that appears powerful or dangerous but is actually ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge. The term is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎). The term is often used to describe a…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, in honor of Spirit the Jaguar. Images courtesy Floris Freshman On July 26, in their “weekly guide to the latest on FOIA, transparency and accountability battles, threats and wins” MuckRock reported, “ Commander troubles: President Joe Biden’s German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, Image courtesy Floris Freshman The FDA and the FCC and political partners from both parties, along with the military, have been having quite a party while counting their riches and thinking of ways not to recognize the harm that new technologies are causing. Many wireless consumers are too young to remember scientists…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, Image courtesy Floris Freshman (This article does not provide medical advice and is offered for entertainment purposes only) In his book “the Cigarette Century” Alan Brandt chronicles the denial of harm that prevailed, for decades, about smoking and health harm. We are repeating history again with another industry-led wave of subterfuge and…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, Image courtesy Floris Freshman Some time may pass before the next chapter of the wireless zoning debacle unfolds in historic Sudbury, Massachusetts. Unlike the board game ‘Clue,’ it wasn’t the butler in the panty with a candlestick; it was the town’s elected board, with a pro-industry consultant, at the…
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